Byzantine empire
First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
Schism
What is a split or division.
Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The Byzantine Empire saved books and knowledge from these two nations.
What is Greece and Rome.
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
The head of the western church.
The pope.
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian or Constantine?
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
Justinian was a unique leader for these reasons:
What is he was just, wise, easy going, listened to the ideas of others, stubborn, born of a poor family?
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
Because the Byzantine Empire had these weapons, it was able to survive.
What is Greek Fire and stone missles?
It is believed that Greek Fire contained this.
What is petroleum?
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
The Byzantine empire fell due to disputes over these two things.
What are politics and religion?
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
For this reason, many nations wanted to take over Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.
What is that it was located at the center of major trade routes?
The reason the eastern and western christian churches split.
What is because the western (Roman Catholic) church believed that you should pray directly to God and not to icons (pictures of saints and holy people) as the eastern church?